Faucet.



W. W. MORRISON & G. F. McCULLY.

FAUCET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I0, 1915.

Patentd Sept. 5,1916.

WITNESS 'IIVVENTOR Arm/my WALTER MORRISON AND GEORGE E. McCULLY, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGN- ORS TO AMERICAN AUTOlVIATIC AND SPRINGLESS FAUCET 00., KING COUNTY,

WASHINGTON.

FAUCET.

Application filed August 10, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WALTER W. MORRI- SON and GEORGE F. MOCULLY, citizens of the United States, and residents of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following is a full, true, and exact specification.

Our invention relates to faucets of the springless variety, and has for its principal object to generally improve upon .and'simplify the construction of the faucet as shown in application No. 876,218, filed December 9th, 1914, by George F. McCully, in that our faucet is more noiseless in action and cheaper of construction. It is a well known fact that immense quantities of water are wasted by leaving faucets open. Our invention obviates this loss. Springs are objectionable in self closing faucets as they frequently break. Our faucet combines a self closing and automatic springless faucet.

Other objects will appear as our invention is more fully explained in the following specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central sectional view through thefaucet. Fig. 2 is a cross section on line XX of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, numeral 1 indicates an upper body cored out as at 2 and having a spout 3 at.

tached to it. The lower portion of upper body is provided with screw threads and is screwed into the upper end of a lower body 4. A circular shoulder or ring 5 is finished around the top of body 4. Below shoulder 5, body 4 is cored annularly as at 6. A tubular casing 7 fits in the chamber of the body 4 and snugly against shoulder 5. A transverse partition 8 is spaced a little above the bottom of casing 7. The bottom of upper body 1 fits down against the top of casing 7 and holds it in place. A stem 9 passes down through the top or upper body 1 and sup orts a cone valve 10 which seats from below in an opening in the bottom of upper body 1. Valve 10 is held to stem 9 by a nut 11. The stem 9 continues through valve 10 and has a plunger 12 loosely pivoted to its lower end. Plunger 12 fits snugly and slid-.

ably within casing 7 and is closed at its lower end except for a pair of sniff holes 13.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial N 0. 44,675.

An annular recess 14 encircles the outer periphery of plunger 12. Casing 7 is pro vided with slots 15 below diaphragm 8 and holes 16 near its top, and opposite recess 14, similar holes 17 are formed through the Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

plunger 12- near the bottom of recess 14. A

sniff hole 8 in the diaphragm 8 admits air. The chamber in lower body 4 opens into a screw shank or pipe 18. The water flows in through pipe 18 throughslots 15, up and through holes 16 into annular recess 14 and through holes 17 beneath valve 10. The pressure of the water against the underside of valve 10 holds the valve on its seat. To open the valve, it is only necessary to shove down on the top of stem 9 which opens valve 10 and at the same time shove the top of plunger 12 down but not below holes 16. As the plunger lowers the water immediately below it passes through holes 13. Upon releasing stem 9 from pressure, the diflerence in the pressure of the water above and below the bottom of plunger 12 causes the plunger to rise and close valves 10 rather quickly, but not noisily as the nearer closed the valve 10 becomes, the less outlet there is for the water cushion in plunger 12 and the slower the closing takes place.

While we have shown a particular form of embodiment of our invention, we are aware that many minor changes therein will readily suggest themselves to others skilled in the art Without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and we therefore desire to avoid being limited to the exact form shown and described, except as pointed out in the appended claims.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of upper and lower faucet bodies, a cone valve normally seated in said upperbody, means external to the bodies for opening said Valve, a cylindrical casing adapted to fit into the lower body and in a spaced relation to the walls thereof, a transverse partition in said casing, ports through the casing below said partition, through said partition, and through the casing above said partition and near the top of the casing, a hollow plunger attached to the valve and adapted to fit slidably in said casing, an annular recess around the outside of the said plunger, ports in the bottom of said partition into the annular recess,

around said plunger, through the ports in said plunger and past the said valve, the pressure of the water beneath the said plunger and valve closing said ValWiB automatically and noiselessly upon the release of the opening means.

2. In a springless faucet, an upper and lower body part separated by a partition, a spout in the upper body and a water connection in the bottom of said lower body, in combination with a cone valve normally seated in an opening in said partition, a casing fitting into the lower body tightly at top and bottom and in spaced relation to said body centrally, a ported transverse partition near the bottom of said casing, ports through said casing both above and below said partition, whereby a fluid may flow into the lower body below the transverse partition of said casing and through the said ports, a hollow plunger having an annular recess around it secured to said valve and adapted to slidably fit said casing, the bottom or the plunger being spaced from said valve, ports through said plunger between said annular recess and the space beneath the said valve, sniif holes in the bottom of said plunger, whereby when the valve is opened by forcing downward, the fluid beneath the plunger will be relieved of undue pressure by flowing through said sniff holes.

WALTER 'VV. MORRISON. GEO. F. MGCULLY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

